For nearly three full quarters of Saturday’s 38-17 loss to West Virginia in Morgantown, W.Va., the Kansas football team did all that its disgruntled fan base has ever asked it to do. It competed. Before Leddie Brown’s 87-yard touchdown run put the Mountaineers up 24-10 with 3:37 to play in the third quarter, the Jayhawks had managed to hang around. Credit for that goes to D.J. Eliot and the KU defense, ...
There will not be fans in the Allen Fieldhouse stands to usher in another college basketball season, but the Kansas men’s and women’s basketball programs still plan to host Late Night in the Phog this month. The virtual version of the 36th annual event that marks the start of the season is slated for 7 p.m. Oct. 23. Produced by Rock Chalk Video, the virtual Late Night will feature skits by both basketball ...
Citing “personal issues,” Kansas senior Silvio De Sousa announced Friday afternoon on Twitter that he was leaving the KU basketball program. “I have a lot of things weighing on my mind and need to address these by taking time for myself and stepping away from basketball,” De Sousa wrote. “This was not an easy decision, but it’s the best thing for me to do right now.” Thus ends a Kansas career ...
A recent conversation with an old friend sparked an idea that could change the typical flow of the preseason for Kansas basketball coach Bill Self and the Jayhawks. Speaking via telephone with former KU assistant and current East Carolina head coach Joe Dooley, Self was caught off guard by Dooley’s answer to the simple question of how much of his playbook Dooley had installed. “He said, ‘I’ve about ...
In the fall of 2017, after playing a supporting role for his first three seasons at Kansas, former KU point guard Devonte’ Graham happily grabbed the reins as team leader in a very public celebration at Late Night that fit his personality and matched the adoration the fans had for him. Fast-forward three years, to the start of senior guard Marcus Garrett’s time to take the lead, and there was no such ...
Before the question was even finished, Kansas basketball senior Mitch Lightfoot already had begun smiling. Thursday afternoon, a couple of hours before the Jayhawks’ first official practice of the 2020-21 season, Lightfoot, now in his fifth season with the program, was asked about the NCAA’s recent ruling that all winter sports athletes would get an extra year of eligibility because of the pandemic that ...